Does “Music Trump Politics”? Dennis Prager and the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra
By Ted Gordon Dennis Prager in 2013. Photo Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez, LA Times (via Getty Images)… Read More
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In the Aftermath of Charlottesville
By Bonnie Gordon The “Unite the Right” Rally on UVa Campus. Photo Courtesy of Richmond Times-Dispatch. As the… Read More
Lessons from the Archive: On Creativity, Process, and the Working Life of John Adams
By Alice Miller Cotter John Adams. Photo Credit: Margaretta Mitchell None of us is entirely sure what lures… Read More
Review: The (R)Evolution of Steve Jobs
By Matthew Dirst Is there drama in bytes? Or poetry in the smart phone? Only a Luddite would reject out of hand such tantalizing prospects… Read More
Quick Takes — A Double-Edged Sword: How FFXII: The Zodiac Age’s score keeps the player engaged despite the game’s heavy automation
By Lee Hartman In Final Fantasy XII’s original 2006 PlayStation 2 release, the game’s endearing cast of six party members battled its way through the… Read More
Quick Takes — The Sonic Makeover in Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
By Kate Mancey Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is the latest HD remaster from Square Enix, and with it comes an extensive remastering of… Read More
Quick Takes — Playing with Time in The Zodiac Age
By Stefan Greenfield-Casas When playing a Final Fantasy game, there are a few things that generally remain consistent between games: a character named Cid,… Read More
Quick Takes Meets Ludomusicology
Today, Musicology Now’s “Quick Takes” series explores the sonic world of gaming with a series of four essays on the role-playing video game, Final Fantasy… Read More
Inheriting Ivalice: The Multiple Sonic Legacies of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
By Ryan Thompson Final Fantasy XII was originally released in 2006 for the Playstation 2, and a remastered edition was released in 2017 for the… Read More
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
By Marianna Ritchey Marianna Ritchey at the opera. Image courtesy of Marianna Ritchey. On July 26, I attended The… Read More
Six Easy Ways to Immediately Address Racial and Gender Diversity in Your Music History Classroom
Many of us have probably had “the talk.” No, not the birds and the bees, the talk on how to bring women and people of… Read More
Dissertation Digest — Timbeando en Nueva York: Cuban Dance Culture in Havana and New York City
By Sarah Town New York’s casineros come together in Central Park on a recent Saturday afternoon, their dance… Read More
Earth Music
By Alexander Rehding and Daniel KL Chua Carl Sagan proudly exhibits the Golden Record. Exactly forty years ago, in… Read More
Balancing the Sound and Score: Sonic Storytelling in Wonder Woman
By Caitlan Truelove Wonder Woman is not your standard superhero film in many ways, the most important being the balance of sound and score. Read More
Reflections on the Nature of Evil or, Eichmann in Themyscira
By Naomi Graber[1] The creative team behind Wonder Woman faced no simple task: they had to create a stand-alone film that would still… Read More
A Woman’s Voice (Wonder Woman)
By Jessica Getman Despite Steve Trevor’s attempts to convince her otherwise, Diana continued to insist that Ares was behind The Great War. In the end… Read More
From Sex Object to God: A New World for Wonder Woman
By Grace Edgar In her first solo outing, Diana (Gal Gadot) faced the daunting task of defeating the very concept of war itself. Raised by… Read More
Quick Takes on Wonder Woman
Today, Musicology Now begins a series of Quick Takes on the summer blockbuster hit, Wonder Woman. Grace Edgar, Jessica Getman, Caitlan Truelove, and Naomi Graber will… Read More
Quick Takes: Chains of Nostalgia in The Guardians of the Galaxy
By Brooke McCorkle Among the many Marvel Cinematic Universe films to grace the summer screens over the last decade, The Guardians of the Galaxy stands out for… Read More
Quick Takes: Allegories of the Self in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
By James Buhler About two-thirds of the way into the film, Ego (Kurt Russell) is trying to persuade his son, Peter (Chris Pratt), that they… Read More